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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumuzid WAP: quote:My vulva, the horn, I find this v charming quote:Dumuzid had virtually no power outside of his distinct realm of responsibilities.[20] Very few prayers addressed to him are extant[21] and, of those that are, almost all of them are simply requests for him to provide more milk, more grain, more cattle, etc.[21] The sole exception to this rule is a single Assyrian inscription in which a man requests Tammuz that, when he descends to the Underworld, he should take with him a troublesome ghost who has been haunting him.[22] Mescal fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Sep 23, 2023 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inanna#Descent_into_the_underworld Now look at this vase of Inanna. That's got to be a modern forgery, right? There's no way that's 2nd millennium BCE. Come on.
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I have a tip on some good, high-quality, cheap copper
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MrQwerty posted:I have a tip on some good, high-quality, cheap copper What do you think about the idea that Ea-Nasir was a cognate of Ebenezer? I don't buy that "stone of help" etymology for a second. My second hypothesis is that it might have to do with a proto-afrasian root hnzr for pig.
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drat I'm getting all boned up over here
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Hell yeah tuggin the ol’ copper rod to that poem, bout to bust some of that fresh honey cheese
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Sep 23, 2023 00:19
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inanna needs to cool off god drat
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LMAO before his makeover when he was called Tammuz. 90-lb noodle. here he is dying and resurrecting with the seasons.   
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC8g_26f0qE There are a few not-well-supported statements in this but overall it's a high quality video
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Still waiting on them to make a big-budget Gilgamesh movie.
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I was hanging with my buddy Enkidu the other day, and, well, one thing led to another and we started touching each other's Nergals.
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BeastOfTheEdelwood posted:I was hanging with my buddy Enkidu the other day, and, well, one thing led to another and we started touching each other's Nergals. Mardukbless u
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did innana ever station the ox
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Y'all ever hear the one about the dog that walks into a tavern?
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 From a comparative lexicon of ugaritic and canaanite.  This Dr loves drugs
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Hell, same
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I haven't read up on the ancient Babylonian/Sumerian gods in awhile, but weren't just about all of them pretty much universally feared more than they were actually respected or worshipped out of genuine reverence, with Tammuz/Dumuzid (who I think was associated with the moon and had a whole month-long "festival" dedicated to him "dying" or going to the underworld for awhile or some poo poo every year around July, iirc) being pretty much the sole exception?
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I. M. Gei posted:I haven't read up on the ancient Babylonian/Sumerian gods in awhile, but weren't just about all of them pretty much universally feared more than they were actually respected or worshipped out of genuine reverence "Fearing the gods" is a bit literal, but mostly an expression for piety. People feared starving and dying without issue. They implored the gods to help prevent such things. [1 Did God Have a Wife?]  (They're talking about their own hypothesis)
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I. M. Gei posted:I haven't read up on the ancient Babylonian/Sumerian gods in awhile, but weren't just about all of them pretty much universally feared more than they were actually respected or worshipped out of genuine reverence, with Tammuz/Dumuzid (who I think was associated with the moon and had a whole month-long "festival" dedicated to him "dying" or going to the underworld for awhile or some poo poo every year around July, iirc) being pretty much the sole exception? It's easy to fear the Babylonian gods when Marduk is running around casting d20 lightning bolt spells per turn. 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_of_Vulci#/media/File:Centaure_de_Vulci.JPG Etruscan, but okay. This might answer an old question about centaurs: do they have two penises? To an Etruscan around the 600s BCE, it would've seemed like bad luck to portray this Apollo-haired boye without a phallus. It would've seemed like an anti-good luck charm.  Dickbutt ejaculating (?) on an evil eye on which a scorpion sits - This photographer has some great ANE art from Israeli museums and stuff.  I still want to see a reference that Asherah has a dove association. "Did God Have a Wife?" By Wm Dever 2005 says so once without reference. "A reassessment of Asherah" by Wiggins 2007 has only one epigraph mentioning a dove, and it's in relation to El, though she (Athirat, if you want to consider that the same goddess) is present. I think it's more likely the bird is a scout like Noah's birds.* *Genesis 8:6-12. In this narrative, Noah first sends out a raven, which keeps flying back and forth until the waters have dried up. He then sends out a dove three times. The birds eyes seem to point emphasize its vision, so perhaps this dove (?) is like Kassandra's avian companion Irakos in Assassins Creed: Greece: it would fill Asherah's knowledge of landmarks and special quests. https://www.flickr.com/photos/pelegrino/49070300493/in/photostream/  This pic shows how gorgeously mannered the Ugaritic writing style is! It's a heartbreaker: NOTE: RIGHT-TO-LEFT.  Swoon! Sound these out (really, try it) and you'll see how the alphabet matches the phonology; it's brilliant. I think one person or a small group designed it; the auth of Gun, Germs, Steel agrees with me. Or maybe it was somebody with a name similar to his.  But compare this to the first one; it's got a similar fractal feeling. The banana-ish shapes are how the date palm is usually shown. The first picture is a variation on how the date palm's usually shown. There's a less-flat depiction with a blobbier version of what's on the Saudi emblem. She looks like she's got bear's legs but they're lions'. She's often depicted standing on or flanked by two lions; here they're collapsed into her actual legs. It's an iconographic phase change. But why are we interested in that birdish, buglike goddess? She's the handle attachment to a large vessel!* *"a reassessment of asherah" pg 77 of pdf. pg 51 of document. a divine bowl with a handle "like/of" (-k) AMR. what's AMR?! In the song of deborah there's a reference to a "lordly bowl," too. That's the source of the interest. quote:He asked water, she gave milk; she brought cream cheese* in a sefel of the (rich/divine.) *Many variants possible I just got a big headache so I'm gonna post now look at this picture https://www.flickr.com/photos/pelegrino/49070827891/ Mescal fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Oct 7, 2023 |
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Also Dumb Academic Bullshit thread: THIS IS OUR ONLY PHILISTINE PENIS. IT MUST BE A PENIS, OR WE'LL HAVE ZERO PHILISTINE PHALLUSES. Edit: the Philistines were famously uncircumcised, so they have to talk about that when discussing this rock. Mescal fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Oct 7, 2023 |
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Mescal posted:Swoon! Sound these out (really, try it) and you'll see how the orthography matches the phonology; it's brilliant. What do you mean exactly? Spell it out more for me, a dullard. (It does look great, though!)
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Earliest civilization is nothing but dick cults.
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Tree Bucket posted:What do you mean exactly? Spell it out more for me, a dullard. I'm sorry, I probably shouldn't have said orthography, rather abjad. It goes the other way, right to left, and the quality of forward movement matters. The easiest way to spot is is probably by seeing how all the silibants have the same general shape. The general shape is how the author sees your tongue against your palate, and the additions to a less adorned shape seem to have been thought through on array. s is a reasonable diagram of how your mouth makes the letter. when viewed in that light, sh makes sense as a variant diagram or the other way around. I completely fail to see how this figure is meant to be grasping its dick and balls. Mescal fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Oct 7, 2023 |
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big ancient tibbies
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Mescal posted:Also Dumb Academic Bullshit thread:  
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It’s great that ancient civilizations were just as stupid as the one we live in right now
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I forgot where I got it, but here's a stone carving of a vomiting lion.
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Henry Lee Mucus posted:It’s great that ancient civilizations were just as stupid as the one we live in right now That's honestly one of my favorite things about humanity. It's especially exciting as we go further and further back in time to prehistory, and we see that ancient people were brilliant, creative, and innovative, and also liked fart jokes and drawing dicks on stuff
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MrQwerty posted:I have a tip on some good, high-quality, cheap copper 
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you can find me hooking down by the ishtar gate, most nights
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IYYhoO-hiY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htARnZjxQGs Ancient Babylonian cooking, or an interpretation of it
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:I forgot where I got it, but here's a stone carving of a vomiting lion.  wow he's just like my cat
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tasting history is so goddamn good
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:I forgot where I got it, but here's a stone carving of a vomiting lion. It looks like he was hit with a spear and might be vomiting blood. Anyways, he's dead.
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Buce posted:tasting history is so goddamn good his brain ceased functioning when he was making kykeon for some reason, but pretty much everything else has been pretty great to watch, even if the dish itself was of questionable culinary value. but really i don't know how he looked at what he made and came to the conclusion it resembled anything anybody had ever willingly ate ever, in any society
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Darth Brooks posted:It looks like he was hit with a spear and might be vomiting blood. Anyways, he's dead. Hmm. Copyright 700 BCE. Mighty as unto Lamassu or not, that cat must be long dead.
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The Code of the Nesilim posted:187. If a man have intercourse with a cow, it is a capital crime, he shall die. They shall lead him to the king's hall. But the king may kill him, the king may grant him his life. But he shall not approach the king.
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finally... FAQs on what to do when you get sodomised by your own livestock...
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